THE 2001 Gene Hackman flick I>Behind Enemy Lines/Iwas an otherwise forgettable testosterone #8211; fuelled action thriller that featured the usual two-dimensional bad guys and predictable plot lines. But to Kent Kresa, 64, it #8211; or at least the 30-second scene that plugged a fictional version of technology.

Nine-year-old Wong Chun Jet can now smile and is looking forward to celebrating the Year of the Goat with his #8220;new father.'' Orphaned since the age of two, Chun Jet lost his father in a road accident just before his birth in July 1994.

EVEN before the British education secretary Charles Clarke releases his long-awaited paper on university funding, one of his priorities is already clear: British universities must develop a US-style #8220;endowment culture#8221;.

Life at Montreal#8217;s Concordia University downtown campus has been in conflict since a pro-Palestinian movement took over the student government in 2000 despite numbering just a few hundred of the more than 26,000 students. But this year has been particularly tumultuous.